Event 1 Flight A: Ed Johnston Bags the Lead

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  13 of 129

Ed Johnson

After a very, very long money bubble, Flight A dropped down to 13 players and they bagged up their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday in the money.

Ed Johnston had a healthy lead at the last break and then went bigger. He put 657,000 for a huge lead over the field with Phillip Krnyaich back in second place with 298,000.

We will post the complete chip count list as soon as it is available. Flight B is cruising along with 112 entries in the first hour and late registration is available until 10:30 pm.